PART 17: Neurologic Disorders
SECTION 2 Diseases of the Central Nervous System
380 Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases
 | Figure 380-1 Nerve conduction in myelinated and demyelinated axons. A. Saltatory nerve conduction in myelinated axons occurs with the nerve impulse jumping from one node of Ranvier to the next. Sodium channels (shown as breaks in the solid black line) are concentrated at the... |
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 | Figure 380-2 Clinical course of multiple sclerosis (MS). A. Relapsing/remitting MS. B. Secondary progressive MS. C. Primary progressive MS. |
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 | Figure 380-3 MRI findings in MS. A. Axial first-echo image from T2-weighted sequence demonstrates multiple bright signal abnormalities in white matter, typical for MS. B. Sagittal T2-weighted FLAIR (fluid attenuated... |
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 | Figure 380-4 Therapeutic decision-making for MS. |
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